Guru Śloka — Two Verses from the Guru Stotram
Two verses from the Śrī Guru Stotram (Guru Vandanam) — the first establishing the guru's identity with Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara, the seco…
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Tantrokta Devī Suktam — Complete 30 Verses, Hymn to Aparājitā
The Tantrokta Devī Suktam in full — thirty verses recited at the close of the Devī Māhātmya, addressing the Goddess as she manifests in consciou…
Śrī Hanumān Chālīsā — Complete 40 Verses with Transliteration
The complete Hanumān Chālīsā — Tulsīdāsa's 16th-century Awadhi devotional poem, forty verses and two dohās, with full transliteration. The mo…
Astro-Ethnobiology — Jyotiṣa, Human Character, and the Ecology of the Cosmos
Peer-reviewed paper (J. Hum. Ecol. 17(4), 2005) by Padhy, Dash, and Padmavati examining the astrological basis of human character from an ethno-biolog…
Liṅgāṣṭakam — Eight Verses to Sadāśiva
The Liṅgāṣṭakam in eight stanzas — each ending with the same declaration of prostration before Sadāśiva's liṅga. With full transliteratio…
Śrī Rāma Rāma Rāmeti — The Śloka Equal to the Thousand Names
The one-verse śloka given by Śiva to Pārvatī — chanting Rāma's name three times is equal in sanctity to reciting the Viṣṇu Sahasranāma in …
Guide to Chakra Bīja and Mātr̥kā — The Seed Syllables and the Alphabet Goddesses
A 38-page guide from the Sound Yoga Academy mapping the cakra bīja seed syllables (LAM, VAM, RAM, YAM, HAM, OM) and the mātr̥kā — the fifty Sans…
Mā Amba Lalithā Devī — Stotra and Devi Prayer
A 21-verse stotra to Mahātripurasundarī Lalitāmbikā with Sanskrit and English — each verse invoking a different aspect of the Goddess — follow…
Śrī Rājarājēśvaryaṣṭakaṁ — Hymn to the Queen of Queens
Eight-canto hymn to Mahātripurasundarī Lalitāmbikā, attributed to Ādi Śaṅkarācārya. Full text in IAST and Devanagari with English translatio…
Friday Kirtan at Mata’s
Every Friday 6–8pm, the Ecology Yoga community gathers at Mata's for two hours of devotional singing — call and response, Sanskrit bhajans, mantra…
The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's dark fairy tale about one-sided friendship — and what it reveals about the extraction that calls itself devotion. Full text, with ecol…
Healing Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Havan at Mata’s on Saturdays
Every Saturday, the Ecology Yoga community gathers for a havan centred on the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra — the ancient Vedic fire ritual with offerin…
The Bhagavad Gītā’s Enduring Question
What the Gītā actually asks — and why its answer through karma yoga and dharmic action remains the most practical teaching for ecological and rela…
Cutting the Root of Suffering — Lama Yeshe
Lama Thubten Yeshe on śūnyatā (emptiness) as the single most important realisation — why all saṃsāric suffering traces back to the wrong conce…
Raising Up Women and Girls in Society
The tradition does not separate the welfare of women from the welfare of the earth. Both are the Goddess in her most immediate form. What we practise …
Tripurasura and Śiva — The Three Cities and the Single Arrow
The Purāṇic narrative of the three demon brothers who obtained three indestructible cities aligned once every thousand years, and Śiva's single ar…
The Kurumba of the Nilgiris — Belief, Memory, and the Living Tradition
The Kurumba people of the Nilgiri Hills — five clans, ancient Pallava roots, and a living cosmology that holds the human community in relationship w…
Yoga Kuṇḍalinī — A Classical Manual
A classical manual on kuṇḍalinī practice — the preparation of body and nervous system (śarīra-śuddhi, nāḍī-śodhana, kriyā sequence), t…
Yantra — Sacred Geometry across Śaiva/Śākta/Vaiṣṇava Traditions
A survey of yantra — the geometric support for meditation, mantra, and śakti — across the three major Hindu tantric currents. Covers the Śrī Ya…
Yoga for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
A careful, evidence-informed yoga therapy guide for women during and after breast cancer treatment — fatigue management, lymphedema precautions, gen…
Devi Mahatmya — The Glory of the Goddess
The Durga Saptasati — 700 verses mapping the Goddess’s defeat of cosmic delusion — with Swami Sivananda’s introduction and the complete PDF fo…
Yoga Stretches
A practical guide to yoga-based stretching — distinguishing the held, breath-integrated āsana from the ballistic stretch, addressing the role of th…
Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam — A Thousand Names of Devi
The complete Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam from the Brahmanda Purana — a thousand names of the divine feminine as a living map of consciousness, for chan…
The Origin of the Mahavidyas: Sati, Daksha, and the Ten Great Wisdoms
The Puranic story of Sati’s confrontation with Daksha and the emergence of the ten Dasa Mahavidyas — the complete map of divine feminine power in …
Vedic Planner — Science of Light Pañcāṅga 2017
A practical pañcāṅga (Vedic almanac) covering the 2017 solar year, calculated for Sacramento CA by Science of Light. Includes retrograde cycles, n…
Brahma Vidyā: The Agni Purāṇa
The Agni Purāṇa — one of the most encyclopaedic of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas — as a study resource in Brahma Vidyā, the direct knowledge of…
Dharma Yoga: Adi Shankaracharya
How a child from coastal Kerala became the philosopher who systematised Advaita Vedānta and established four living monastic institutions across Indi…
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: Rāma’s Monologue of Despondency
The opening of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — Rāma's great dispassion — and why his ancient crisis of meaning is the tradition's model for genuine enqu…
Mantra Va — Alakh Bābā Śrī Chand Bhagavān Jī Mātrā Sāhib Jī (मात्रा साहिब · ਮਾਤਰਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ) with Babaji and Matri
Bābā Śrī Chand Bhagavān Jī's Mātrā Sāhib — the foundational composition of the Udāsī order, recited daily by the lineage. Jñāna yoga, t…
Mantra Pūrṇāhuti — पूर्णाहुति — Sanskrit and Audiotrack
The pūrṇāhuti — the final offering that seals a Vedic ritual — chanted from the opening invocation of the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad. Audio recor…